Struggle in the Steam Age

For the launch of the third health product, Lawrence obviously had some hesitation before. Because compared with the first two drugs, the effect of the third drug is not as reliable as the first two.

At least in some anonymous double-blind tests, only about half of the people claimed that these drugs had a significant effect on them.

If you consider that this medicine is aimed at some unspeakable concealment, those who claim that the medicine is useful for them may not be telling the truth. Therefore, according to Lawrence's judgment, this drug can at most affect 1/4 to 1/3 of people.

After getting this data sheet, Lawrence even plans to abandon the sale of three health products. Because he believes that when these health products were first introduced on the island, selling a health product that was not as effective may affect the overall reputation.

But after discussion, Lawrence was finally persuaded by the staff on the island, and he finally accepted everyone's proposal and approved the sale of the third health product.

The reason why everyone supports the sale of this drug is also very simple, because everyone except Lawrence believes that the effect of this drug is indeed very good, at least almost an order of magnitude better than those similar products on the market.

The reason why it is better than similar drugs on the market is also very simple, because the rat man does have a lot of research accumulation in this area, so it does have a certain specialty in the production of this drug.

And besides that, even from a placebo point of view, the medicament for counting people has some special advantages.

As for why this is the case, it is also easy to explain. To give the simplest example, the rat people are one of the most fertile races among the civilized races, so the drugs made with their technology are very effective even if they sound. Aroused the confidence of some users.

"Did you buy a lot of fish oil this time?" Seeing that the barrels of tin barrels with a strong smell were transported to the ship, the baron who followed all the way from Xingchenhai asked in a puzzled way. .

"But if I remember correctly, your New Sauer Island is our largest seafood producing area, and there should be a lot of fish oil production. Even I, like you, bought fish oil for lighting. So why run Come here to order fish oil?"

"Because I plan to make some health care products -" Lawrence naturally does not need to hide his plan at this time.

On the one hand, this kind of mass production of health products requires a series of industrial foundations, which are basically not produced at the level of other places.

On the other hand, the agreement between the nobles is much more effective than the agreement between ordinary businessmen. As long as the negotiation is done before, those people will not go back even if they know that Lawrence can make a lot of money through these fish oils.

"So that's it!" After listening to Lawrence's summary of what he was going to do next, both the Baron and Viscount Surrey showed a clear expression.

Because this is the only way to explain why Lawrence has to spend money to buy a lot of similar things here when there are a lot of similar products in his hometown.

After all, in this world, there are a lot of metaphysical elements in the nourishing things. Some of these metaphysical elements are indeed part of the extraordinary in this world, but more are just speculations by ordinary people.

But even so, a large number of people will still believe in these metaphysical contents, and the selection process of many medicines has become nagging.

At least Lawrence had seen similar situations in the pharmacy more than once when he was in school at Eagle Fort. For example, a certain medicinal liquor used to treat jaundice was specifically stated that it was soaked with gold coins from Briton.

According to the pharmacy at the time, after drinking this kind of wine soaked in golden yellow gold, the unhealthy yellow color on the body will disappear and the disease can be cured. The reason for choosing the Briton gold coin is that the color of this gold coin is closest to the body color.

Under such circumstances, Lawrence chose to transport fish oil all the way from the north without using the seafood from his hometown. It is naturally easy to accept.

Although the main reason Lawrence chose the fish here is that the fish living in the cold zone contain higher and better active ingredients, but he also believes that there will definitely be many outrageous legends about this matter.

"I have a question that is more curious." Just after everyone had finished talking and laughing about this matter, the baron who had come from Star Sea looked at the barrels of fish oil barrels being transported to the ship and asked.

"So much fish oil means that there should be a certain level of fishery in the local area, so why don't people solve the famine problem through fishery?"

"I know this, because the fish in this area are not very suitable for eating." Before Viscount Surrey had time to explain, Lawrence said based on what he found in his previous investigation.

"It may be because of the cold climate. The specialty fish around this area are thicker fish, but unfortunately the fat on the fish is hard to eat."

When Lawrence was testing these fish oils, he accidentally discovered that the fats in these fishes in this region have one thing in common with the oily fish of the previous life, that is, accidentally eating too much can easily lead to severe diarrhea.

The only good point is that if you only consume a small amount, such as drinking only one or two grams with a small spoon at a time, there will be basically no problem, but it can achieve the effect of strengthening the body.

But in this way, the edible part of these fish appears to be less. If you take into account the fact that the local population is sparse and the low temperature makes it impossible to produce salt on its own, all salt can only be imported.

I know that although there is a fishing industry on this island, there are really not many ways to store and eat those seafood on a large scale. Nor can it make up for the food gap on the island.

"Yes, this is indeed a big problem." Viscount Surrey nodded, then pointed to the fishing boat on the other side of the port and said. "In addition, the low level of our overall fishery here is also a fatal problem."

Hearing this, Lawrence immediately turned his head and looked at the finger of Viscount Surrey. As a result, he saw five or six ships with fishing nets on their gunwales parked on the side of the pier away from the cargo ships being loaded and unloaded.

However, unlike Lawrence’s fishing boats of different levels of large, medium and small fishing boats that form a system, each of the boats here does not have a displacement of more than 150 tons.

"These boats look a little smaller." The representative baron said his feelings all at once. As a nobleman in the territory of Star Sea, he was quite clear about the level of fishing boats.

"But we can only afford this kind of fishing boat here." Viscount Surrey shook his head reluctantly and said, "And compared to other lords on the island~www.wuxiahere.com~my fishing fleet It can be regarded as the largest and best equipped team on the island."

In the next ten minutes, through Viscount Surrey’s account, Lawrence and the others finally figured out what was wrong with the fishery here.

Compared with the calm sea area around the Star Sea, the sea conditions around Green Island are very complicated. Fog, drift ice, huge waves, etc. can be said to be endless.

Therefore, if you want to develop any marine industry here, the price and cost required are all far greater than the cost of developing the same industry in the Xingchenhai area.

And because of the shortage of manpower in the local area, a series of problems such as all kinds of goods for building and repairing ships can only be solved by importing, which makes it impossible to develop into a large-scale fishing industry.

To make matters worse, due to the harsh sea conditions in the surrounding ocean. It is difficult for these small-tonnage vessels to travel too far from the coastline to start fishing operations, so they can only maintain some small-scale offshore fisheries in the offshore waters.

Although the sea lord who owns a harbor like the Viscount Surrey will also try to develop the fishing industry for the ocean, various restrictions make it impossible for them to develop this industry.